Who was the first English Navy built by?

$$ Alfred the Great

Who was Alfred the Greats teacher that wrote a life of him?

$$ a Welsh monk, Asser

What was the Danish influence upon the English language?

$$ the roots of the words were the same but the endings were different

Who conquered England in 1066?

$$ the Noman Duke William the Conqueror

What did the country-folk wrote in XII-XIII centuries, when monks wrote historical chronicles in Latin and the aristocracy wrote their poetry?

$$ ballads and songs in Anglo-Saxon

Who governed England in the 14th century?

$$ the Norman masters

When Edward III made war with France? And how was it called?

$$ in 1337. The” Hundred Year’s War.”

What caused the pestilence “Black Death”?

$$) the ruin of France and the famine

What is Langland famous for?

$$ “Piers Plowman”

How did Wyclif met the people’s demand?

$$ by translating the Bible

$$$201. Chaucer:

$$ cleared the way to realism

What does pilgrimage mean?

$$ traveling to sacred places

What was pilgrimage by Chaucer’s work?

$$ “ democratic institution”

What were the ideas of the Reformation?

$$ the establishment of the national Church

Who taught people during the reign of Henry VIII?

$$ the foreign scholars

What language did More write?

$$ a most beautiful Latin

$$$207. Thomas More’s great work:

$$ “Utopia”

What were the two stages upon which developed the theatre?

$$ the Church and the markets

Why was More beheaded?

$$ he refused to obey the king

What does “utopia” mean?

$$ no-where

What did the English writings of More include?

$$ political discussions, poetry, biographies

What were the ideas of the Bourgeois Revolution in the XVII century?

$$ the formation of the republic

Who was the leader of the Independents?

$$ Oliver Cromwell

What did Charles I had to sign ?

$$ the Petition of Rights

What did the Puritans wish?

$$ purifying the English Church from Catholic rites

How was the 4th Parliament of 1640 called in history?

$ Short Parliament

Who had a great talent for military leadership?

$$ Oliver Cromwell

What was Milton’s great literary work?

$$ Paradise Lost

What are Milton’s works characterized by?

c) their duality

What was the history of England marked by the time of the Enlightenment?

$$ formation of the republic

What literature was mostly developed in those period of time (English settlements in America)?

$$ historical chronicle and memoirs,

What wasn’t allowed in works on religious theme?

$$ the elements of poetry

What were the literary peculiarities of the American colonial literature?

$$ rising mentality

What literature was mostly developed in Spanish and Portugal?

$$ the bookish and scientific one,